Book · 2012 · Death and burial
No Easy Day
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Author of the best-selling book No Easy Day under the pseudo name Mark Owen, giving the world an insiders look at the mission that took Bin Laden down.
Shawn Ryan · The Shawn Ryan Show · Nov 2025 Listen at 2:40 What they say about it
- Government actions after publication“the government immediately came after me”3
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Good buddy of mine Mark Owen he writes a book called No Easy Day and that's the one about the bin Laden raid and that one that was like a tipping point.
Jack Carr The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2020 I wrote No Easy Day, right? The government immediately came after me for writing that book without a pre-publication review process being done.
And I immediately knew that that was not something this classified because they did the same thing when Matt wrote the book No Easy Day.
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No Easy Day by Mark Owen and Kevin Maurer is a firsthand account of the military mission that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden, published under a pseudonym to provide an insider perspective on the historic raid. The book has been referenced on several podcast episodes to discuss the fallout of military memoirs and government scrutiny. Jack Carr mentioned on The Joe Rogan Experience that the book served as a tipping point regarding government oversight of Navy SEAL authors. On The Shawn Ryan Show, Shawn Ryan and guest Matt Bissonnette discussed how the federal government unjustly pursued Bissonnette legally after the publication of his book without a pre-publication review. Tim Parlatore also referenced the memoir on the same show to illustrate how the government frequently mislabels standard military equipment as classified when dealing with these accounts. Additionally, Mark Geist mentioned reading the book while deployed, and Alexandra Alter referenced it during a discussion on The Book Review regarding publisher descriptions of contemporary military literature. Across these appearances, the book remains a central reference point for discussions surrounding military transparency, government censorship, and the real-world legal consequences faced by authors who share their classified operational experiences with the public.
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Matt Bissonnette And and it's I'm I'm telling the story of what the government did to me over my first book, No Easy Deal. 2
“And and it's I'm I'm telling the story of what the government did to me over my first book, No Easy Deal.”
“I wrote No Easy Day, right? The government immediately came after me for writing that book without a pre-publication review process being done.”
Shawn Ryan Author of the best-selling book No Easy Day under the pseudo name Mark Owen, giving the world an insiders l… 2
“We're here to talk about you got a new book coming out and we're going to talk about, you know, how the DoD basically went after you unjustly for the previous book, No Easy Day, written by Mark Owen.”
“Author of the best-selling book No Easy Day under the pseudo name Mark Owen, giving the world an insiders look at the mission that took Bin Laden down.”
Alexandra Alter so but anyway the publisher is describing it as redeployment which is Phil's short Story collection meets N… 1
“so but anyway the publisher is describing it as redeployment which is Phil's short Story collection meets No Easy Day and number four”
Jack Carr good buddy of mine Mark Owen he writes a book called no easy day and that's the one about the bin Laden rai… 1
“good buddy of mine Mark Owen he writes a book called no easy day and that's the one about the bin Laden raid and that one that was like a tipping point”
Mark Geist No Easy Day there's a couple of them 1
“No Easy Day there's a couple of them”
Mike Baker is that the guy who's writing the book about all this stuff and talking about you know the man who shot bin… 1
“is that the guy who's writing the book about all this stuff and talking about you know the man who shot bin Laden that guy is persona non grata in the community like you talked to the other seals they're like you don't you don't do that”
Tim Parlatore and I immediately knew that that was not something this classified because they did the same thing when Mat… 1
“and I immediately knew that that was not something this classified because they did the same thing when Matt wrote the book No Easy Day and they said you've revealed this classified piece of gear that we have these panoramic four tube knots”
